Escape from New York (1981)

In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by the creator of Netflix’ The End of the F#%@ing World and I Am Not OK with This and co-host of hit podcast Bat & Spider, Chuck Forsman, and by co-host of the Cinenauts podcast and Dune Pod graphic artist, Ctcher. On this episode, we continue our John Carpenter Triple Feature, with his 1981 classic dystopian sci-fi action movie that catapulted Kurt Russell’s career, Escape from New York.

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Dune News (00:04:49)
• Roundtable Discussion (00:09:55)
• Your Letters (00:58:22)

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Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Transcripts by Sophie Shin
The episode was edited by Maria Passingham of EditAudio Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
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